Word: jealously
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Prosperity. German trade unions have virtually dropped the class-warfare creed. In the coal and steel industries the unions are jealous of their newly won right to share in management's decisions. Labor leaders are striding into statesmanship; they support the Schuman Plan, German rearmament. By choosing Christian Fette as chairman to succeed the late venerated Hans Böckler, the unions have affirmed their political independence. Stern, stubby Chairman Fette, 56, will not dance when the doctrinaire Socialist Party pipes; his business is practical gains for German workers...
...Communists gave the pledge. But they suggested that the U.N. negotiators travel in jeeps whether the weather was fair or foul. The implication was that the helicopters might be fired on by mistake. It was also possible that the Communists, who had no 'copters, were jealous of such a stylish mode of travel, and that even in this minor matter they wanted to save face. In any case, Matt Ridgway stuck to his decision: it would be helicopters, he told the Reds...
...without him. Then a house burns down in a Berlin suburb, and Schiller's body is found in the ruins, along with the corpse of another man. His wife gives her evidence: in reading an N-ray photograph of her, Schiller saw the image of another man. Insanely jealous, he had dropped everything and devoted two years to finding the fellow. In the end. he had burned the house down around both of them...
...most painted object in the U.S. is probably a weather-beaten, 84-year-old fishing shack in Rockport, Mass, known to artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint...
SHAV. Peace, jealous Bard...